Hon no Machi — Jimbocho Book Town Guide
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Ryosuke Sakota joined Isseido Bookstore, one of Jimbocho’s most famous antiquarian bookstores, straight out of high school, and now runs Keyaki Shoten. In this series he recalls fifty years of the book district: the book auctions at the Tokyo Kosho Kaikan, the colleagues he drank with, and the shops and eateries that have since disappeared.
Installments in English
- Interviewing at Isseido Bookstore in a School Uniform: An Antiquarian Bookseller’s 52 Years in Jimbocho
- Hunting Through a Thousand Old Books with Just a List: An Isseido Newcomer at the Book Auctions, and on to the Jimbocho Oden Shop A-One
- What Came Out When He Ordered “Yakitori for Two”: The Night a Jimbocho Oden Shop, A-One, Changed My Values
Other installments appear in the PDF editions of each issue (in Japanese): see Back issues.